Hamid R. Nemati is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Information Systems and Operations Management Department of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He holds a doctorate degree in Management Sciences and Information Technology from the University of Georgia and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Massachusetts. He has extensive professional IT experience as an analyst and has consulted with a number of major corporations. Before coming to UNCG, he was on the faculty of J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration at Georgia State University. His research specialization is in the areas of Organizational Data Mining, Decision Support Systems, Data Warehousing, and Knowledge Management. He has presented nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics relating to his research interests. His research has been published in a numerous top tier scholarly journals.